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Australian State’s Gambling Code Up For Review After Punters Lose Over $606 Million In Poker Australian State’s Gambling Code Up For Review After Punters Lose Over $606 Million In Poker Comments Off on Australian State’s Gambling Code Up For Review After Punters Lose Over $606 Million In Poker BRISBANE, Australia — About a quarter of citizens in the northeastern Australian state, Queensland, play the pokies, with an average spend of about AU$625 ($461.91) per person annually, figures in a new harm minimization plan released this week show. Queensland has flagged a review of its Re...

Single mother-of-two fed $480,000 into pokie machines in just four years  $93,000 of that money was stolen from her daughter's trust fund from her dad The teen's dad died in 2009 and left his daughter Kaeli his superannuation  But her mother Andrea Johnston blew it all in four years before she was 18 She failed to repay sum in two years and is now paying $1,000 per month Johnston said she's been suffering a gambling addiction since she was eight